Knife for meat cutting and mincing machines.



A. SCHAARSGHMIDT.

KNIFE POR MEAT CUTTING ANDAMINCING MACHINES. APPLwATIo'NIILnD SEPT. 14, 19u.

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ALFRED scHAAnscnMrnT, or ELAUEN, GERMANY. p

KNIFE FOR MEAT CUTTING AND MINCING MACHINES.

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Patented Jan. 23,1912.

Application filed September 14, 1911. Serial No. 649,328.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED, SCHAAR- scHMIDT, engineer, a subject of the King of Saxony, residing at 13 Beethovenstrasse, Plauen, Voigtland, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knives for Meat Cutting and Mincing chines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

The knives which have hitherto been employed in various constructions of meat cutting and mincing machines have generally the great disadvantage that they are liable to work themselves into the disks upon which they are arranged and as a result the knives wear very quickly and become blunt.

This disadvantage arises partly `from the reason that the knives are made of one piece of thick steel and also as stated on account of their working themselves into the-disks so that the cutting edgesor surfaces become broad. Such broad cutting surfaces cause much friction and require of course ,greater power and in spite of being tightly pressed upon the disk only make the cutting a very imperfect one. A further disadvantage is that if the disks are not absolutely plain, even sharply ground knives do n ot cut the meat but only squeeze or tearfit off. According to this present invention these disadvantages are removed by mounting the knives or blades in resilient manner upon the arms yof the knife body. The arrangement is pref erably such that the knives are connected to their arms so as to be easily detached and that they are secured in their position upon the said arms (for example). by an elastic clamp which fits to the Vshape of Vthe arms, which latter are provided with abutments preventing displacement of the knives toward either end. The employment of such knives results in a meat cutting and minc-V ing machine which will meet all requirements I will now refer to the accompanying drawings which illustrate two examples of carrying out my invention. i

Figure l is a side elevation, partly insection, of a knife body for single blades-one blade being shown. Fig. 2 is a section taken ufor double blades-two of work much more easily.

elevation, partly in section,

iitted withblades, and Fig. Il is a section on line C-D of Fig. 3.' f

online A Bof Fig-1. Fig. 3 is a side l of aknife body, the arms being i yAccording to the examples shown the knife carrying body c has four star-like arms b f When usingone-edged knives, these arms 17) are preferably of such section as that shown in Fig. Q while the blades c are made from band-steel, sheet steel or any other suitable material and arey secured to the arms t by means of resilient or spring-like clamps d, e, which exact-ly lit to the cross section of the said arms to the back 4of which theyV are connected by screws, rivets or the like. The blades c are inserted at the front rbetween the arms and clamps. cl and pushed back until they butt against the back of thel The front edge of the knives only slightly overlap the knife arms which lserve as stops.

carrying' arms'. In` order to prevent :the blades moving lengthwise toward the top or the bottom, the arms b are provided'with abutments g, 7L. t f

, Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate a two-edged knife for meat cutting and mincing machines, the

lknife being constructed by observing the The vad vantages of this new knife 1n comparisonV same conditions as stated above.

with the known arrangements consist in that the blades, on account of their resiliency, always lie closely and under pressure against their `coperating disks, whether the` latter arehollow, convex or plain. In this *zo z soA way a clean and perfect cutting it obtained.

The moderate thickness of the blades prevents the edges becoming too broad and it is not necessary to pres'sV the knives ywith such force against the disks as is required `with the hitherto used rigid knives., This results in the `further advantage that the loss of energy occasioned by friction, is greatly reduced in such machines which thus described my invenarms by resilient clamps andV abutments ateach end of said arms to prevent misplace ment of said blades as described.

2. Meat cutting mechanism comprising a In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature m the presence of two Witnesses.

' body adapted to be rotated, arms on said ALFRED SCHAARSGHMIDT' 5 body, two blades on each of said arms and TWitnesses:

abutments on said arms to engage both ends F. L. ABRHSON,

of said blades for the purpose specified. CHARLES NEUER.

Copies of lthis patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of :Patente4 Washington, D. C. 

